Child care: Missing in Maryland?
FROM THE LOCAL NEWS NETWORK"Child care: Missing in Maryland?" is the Local News Network's comprehensive look at the child care shortages that have developed in most parts of the state since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Included will be an overview of the shortages, a look at the difficulty parents have in assessing the quality of child care facilities, an assessment of what the shortage means for the state's plans to expand pre-K, and a look at innovative child care solutions outside of Maryland. The project also includes a close look at what's happening with child care in each of the state's 23 counties as well as the city of Baltimore. About this project.
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On child care, a fitful search for local solutions to a national problem
Transylvania County, North Carolina, tried to solve its child care shortage by spurring the development of small in-home day care facilities — but the effort ended up creating only two of them. Meanwhile in the mountains of western Colorado, Mesa…
Maryland’s pre-K expansion plan proves to be unpopular with child care providers
Maryland is counting on private child care providers to take part as the state expands its pre-K program — but many providers don’t plan on becoming involved. In a spring survey of the state’s child care providers conducted by the…
Finding child care in Maryland is hard. Finding the right child care is even harder.
When Stephanie Jovine searched for child care for her nearly 4-year-old daughter LuzMarie in Prince George’s County in 2015, she found two options, both of them bad. Jovine couldn’t afford the first one, and the second denied the young girl…
Child care is scarce in Maryland and the nation — and the pandemic made matters worse
Halfway through her 12-week maternity leave last summer, Sarah Haddaway didn’t expect the trouble that would accompany her search for child care. After unexpected rejections from one fully booked child care facility after another, the lifelong resident of Maryland’s western…